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  1. For one, singular, blissful moment, nothing is wrong when Ilya wakes up.

    And then the bubble pops.

    With something less like a pinprick and more like a gunshot.

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    After Ilya is outed he has to deal with being the only openly queer player in the league, being Russian, and being in love with Hollander even after he ran away all at once. It sucks. He does it anyway.

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  2. Shane Hollander sends a courtesy text to the wrong number.

    Ilya Rozanov answers.

    What starts as an accident turns into a habit — late-night messages, honesty, and a version of Shane that exists without an audience.

    Ilya figures out who he’s talking to long before Shane does.

    He doesn’t say anything.

    Instead, he keeps replying.

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  3. He feels fizzy, fizzy, fizzy, like a soda can that’s been shaken and cracked open. There’s so much pressure building inside his chest that he can’t possibly keep it all inside. He laughs, just a quiet giggle at first, and then it becomes something louder. Something brighter. Something that bursts out of his chest and cracks through the echoing silence in the bathroom. He has to cover his mouth with his hand to stifle it.

    Shane feels happy. Truly, deep down to his bones, happy.

    He almost can’t believe it.

    (Or, the first night at the cottage.)

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  4. The Boston Bears find out that Ilya Rozanov is extremely obnoxious about being married.

    or, Ilya Rozanov is forced to remember that his former Stanley Cup winning roster was made up of dumb hockey players.

    POV Cliff Marlow because I think he's hot.

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  5. They're playing a game and Shane is going to win. Eventually. With some help. Maybe.

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  6. To make Shane & Ilya's relationship less noticeable on stan twitter, their friends agree to fan the flames of some other ships.

    Featuring: Ilya & Hayden being forced to flirt online, everyone inviting themselves to an orgy with Shane, & the Boston Raiders making sure everyone knows this is a JOKE, seriously, they're just joking, guys.

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  7. Shane Hollander was smart. Shane Hollander was strong. But when Shane Hollander's defenses are down, he is surprisingly easy to kidnap, if you are stupid enough to do so.

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  8. A little rattled by Rozanov's sudden coldness after the olympics, Shane decides to follow a gut feeling that something might be wrong, even if it's not really any of his business. Even if they don't do that. Don't care. He does find Ilya, eventually. But Sasha gets to him first.

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  9. Ilya has lost. Ilya has lost, and he is chainsmoking in a corner, again, and it is cold as shit, again, and Shane Hollander is approaching him, again.

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  10. The first time that Ilya Rozanov’s face ends up in this news, it is a damning photo―one with both of his and Shane's face―and Ilya doesn’t know if it’s a good thing that he sees it first.

    Shane is on a run and then he will shower. His phone is on the nightstand charging because despite the fact that Ilya may head the North American bratva, Shane is the psychopath between them. He prefers to run without headphones in. It’s almost enough for Ilya to second guess his relationship.

    Or: How Shane Hollander, famous hockey player, gets outed by a photo of him kissing his very quiet, completely unremarkable boyfriend, but make it a Mafia AU

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  11. “Yes. In recent games-” Ilya paused. Hollander didn’t interrupt him. “Have you read what they said about you?”
    “Who’s they?”
    “People. Hockey people.”
    Hollander stared Ilya down. “Is this supposed to motivate me?”
    “No, um, I-”
    “You should see the shit they say about *you*.”
    Ilya most definitely did see it.

     

    The NHL adds another team, resulting in an expansion draft. Shane and Ilya, both nearing the end of their careers at age 35, find themselves on the new team. Can they both prove that they’re not “too old” to lead a team to victory? And can they be honest with each other in the process?

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  12. Ilya hadn't responded for several hours. Just before warm ups, at the last possible second, Ilya had sent two photos.
    The first was the nightstand beside Shane's bed, where his boring hockey book and sexy glasses sat arranged with a strip of condoms and the bottle of lube. The second was Ilya's suitcase open on the floor.

    Shane had seen it. He had told Ilya, when he'd skated up to him during stretches, that leaving the suitcase open there was a tripping hazard. Ilya had laughed him back to the Metros bench.

    He wasn't laughing now.

    OR: Shane gave Ilya the code to his condo before the game. With Shane hospitalized and his status uncertain, Ilya embarks on a quest to get his stuff back.

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  13. You are not supposed to smoke when you have badly bruised ribs. You are not supposed to strain yourself by doing too much. You are not supposed to go right back to the exact same thing that hurt you and keep doing it until you can't take the pain any more or something snaps. These things are contraindicated.

    The team doctor explained all this to Ilya wearily, with a look that said he already knew Ilya would do all these things. Oh, and one more thing— you are not supposed to lie down for a long time and not move, by the way, so don't do that either.

    Unfortunately, these are the four main things that Ilya was planning on doing for probably the rest of his life after breaking up with Shane, so... that's just great. Good to know.

    (or: "After the MLH awards, in June..." Ilya needs to talk to Scott Hunter. He goes to the Kingfisher.)

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  14. They’d agreed on a plan. It was cautious. Designed to keep them safe. Laying the foundation for a future after hockey. It didn’t include Shane going nuclear one fucking day into pre-season, blowing up his entire life on something he should’ve expected to happen if he was being honest with himself.

    Or, when the long game falls apart, Shane and Ilya need a new plan. (Or or, from the ten year plan to the one week speed-run.)

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  15. “And because—” Ilya stopped. He was not a man who stopped easily, who lost words, whose tongue failed him. Shane did this to him: removed his fluency, made him reach for things that were not in their usual places. “Because, Ilya?” Shane stepped closer, and Ilya could smell him—the scraping tang of metal and stretched leather and beneath that, something faintly sweet—and this, in combination with the use of his name, made him dizzy, weak. “Because I would rather be known by you than survived by you," Ilya managed. “And if I am to be killed, I would rather it be by you than by another stranger.” Shane went very still. “I’m still a stranger,” Shane said after a moment. “Less now,” Ilya answered. ⋆ or: shane, as part of the winter soldier program, and ilya as the son of its creators. ( you do not need to know a single thing about marvel, the winter soldier, or any of its associated media to read this. )

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  16. And so, that brings Wyatt here, where he is sitting on a sofa with Lisa on his lap, in the living room of Ilya and Shane’s Ottawa home, watching Shane Hollander on The Tonight Show. A genuinely insane string of words that he would never have thought to put together just ten months ago.

    But, Wyatt knows how to adapt, so here he is.

    Or, Wyatt Hayes and his observations on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov.

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  17. The stitches used in your wound will be absorbed naturally by the body. They do not need to be removed.

    Or

    Cliff and Ilya, four years after.

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  18. Ilya lies on the ground and looks up at the stars and waits to die.
    The pavement is cold.
    Ilya wonders if his mother was cold when she died. He thinks maybe not, since she didn’t die in a deserted alleyway in Vancouver. But she did die at home, and maybe that was even colder.

    In a world where the Cold War ended but the Iron Curtain never fell, Ilya Rozanov is the most promising figure skater in Russia. At only 19, he’s an easy candidate for gold at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, one of the only times Russia allows its citizens to leave the USSR.
    And then one mistake means Russia will never let him come back. Hollander won’t stop trying to talk to him, but the last thing Ilya wants to do is talk to the man who ruined his life. He might be stuck in Canada, a refugee, for the rest of his life, but that doesn’t mean he has to talk to Hollander ever again.
    He wanders Vancouver aimlessly and doesn’t think about Russia, or Hollander, or the ice that can never be home again.

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  19. "I told him to pick up milk," Shane sobbed, the sound hysterical and broken. "That’s the last thing I said to him. ‘Pick up some milk on the way home.’ I didn't say I loved him. I didn't say stay. I didn't even look him in the eye because I was frustrated with the loss. I just told him to buy fucking milk." Ilya Rozanov has always been a master of control. Of the puck, of the media, of his own jagged edges. But lately, the edges have started to blur. The "Czar" is retreating, leaving behind a house that looks like a museum and a husband who is starting to feel like a stranger. When the last of Ilya's mess is cleared away and his ring is left behind like a final period at the end of a sentence, Shane has to face the terrifying truth: Ilya doesn't think he’s leaving a hole behind, he thinks he’s cleaning one up. Kinda compliant to The Long Game, but before Ilya talks about his depression with Shane, or goes to seek help.

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  20. Shane’s mom walks back in, then. Her angers melts when she sees them, a fond smile washing away the last of it from her face. “I’m not sure anyone would believe me if I told them you were this sweet together.” “Not always sweet,” Ilya says with laughter curling around the accented syllables. “You raise a menace, Mrs. Hollander.” Yuna nods, a quick little thing that screams satisfaction and pride. “Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” or: in a world where soulmates share each other's pain, Shane's in the hospital after the hit from Marleau revealed his soul tether with Ilya to the world. Yuna Hollander is there to make sure her boys get whatever the fuck they want from the NHL. A direct sequel to achilles, come down

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